by Pamela | Dec 5, 2007 | Astronomy
Tonight at my home university (SIUE) we have a special guest speaker, Dr. Christopher Sorensen of Kansas State University, giving a talk on his research (more on that below). I’m currently sitting in the audience waiting through the 10 million distinguished...
by Pamela | Dec 5, 2007 | Astronomy
As the semester seems to rush to a close, everyone is raising around, desperately trying to get things down. There are papers to write, papers to grade, tests to write, tests to grade, and a never ending parade of end of semester functions to enjoy and suffer through...
by Pamela | Dec 4, 2007 | Astronomy, Space Carnival
This is the last week of the semester, which means my students have sucked all the physical and emotional energy out of me (which is only fair – I’ll suck it back when I give them an exam later this week). I’m trying very hard not to get sick, and...
by Pamela | Nov 29, 2007 | Astronomy, Space Carnival
It’s Thursday, so there’s a carnival. This week the portable entertainment has set up shop over at Out of the Cradle. Check out all the fair and have some fun. (If only they had cotten candy…)
by Pamela | Nov 29, 2007 | Astronomy, Galaxies
[warning Will Robinson: the voices in my head that used to help write Slacker Astronomy are forcing me to write in the genre of a sensationalized nature special] One of the most elusive creatures speculated to lurk within the sky are the mysterious very high-redshift...
by Pamela | Nov 28, 2007 | Astronomy, Cosmology
Ok, so New Scientist is just not making my brain happy this week. I decided to forage around their website to see what was there (one of their editors, Maggie McKee, is a friendly soul I worked with at Astronomy and I wanted to see what’s she’s up to...
